Film Festivals

Actress Sharon Stone to Receive Golden Icon Award at Zurich Film Festival

Sharon Stone (Zurich Film Festival)

Actress Sharon Stone will be honored for her acting career at the 17th Zurich Film Festival with the Festival’s highest accolade, the Golden Icon Award. Sharon Stone will be in Zurich to accept the award in person on Saturday, September 25. The award ceremony will be followed by a screening of Martin Scorsese’s thriller Casino, which earned the actress an Oscar nomination. Sharon Stone will also hold a ZFF Masters where she will offer the public insight into her creative process and remarkable career.

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Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival 2021 to Open with ‘Manzanar, Diverted: When Water Becomes Dust’

Manzanar, Diverted: When Water Becomes Dust

The Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival (LAAPFF) returns for the 37th edition of the Festival taking place from September 23 to October 2, 2021. Due to COVID, the festival will be a hybrid event, taking place both virtually and in person at select cinemas.

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Austin Film Festival 2021 Reveals First 10 Films + Award Honorees

The Humans directed by Stephen Karam

Austin Film Festival (AFF) announced the first wave of ten films along with the award honorees for its 28th-anniversary festival program taking place October 21-28, 2021.

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Nashville Film Festival 2021 Announces Lineup. Opens with Music Doc ‘Brian Wilson: Long Promised Road’

Brian Wilson: Long Promised Road

This year’s 2021 Nashville Film Festival (NashFilm) will feature a total of 160 titles, including 45 feature-length films; along with special events, and more for the 52nd annual event, happening September 30 – October 6 both in-person and online.

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Festival of Cinema NYC 2021 Returns to Queens With Over 120 Independent Films

John Carlucci by John Carlucci and Brandon LaGanke

Festival of Cinema NYC returns for its 5th year, as a live in-person 10-day event, taking place September 24-October 3, 2021, with over 120 independent films at the Regal UA Midway in Forest Hills, Queens.

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Ashland Independent Film Festival Showcases 14 Intl Films in 2021 World Film Week

The Ants and the Grasshopper directed by Raj Patel, Zak Piper

Under the theme “See The World From Where You Are,” the Ashland Independent Film Festival presents 14 films from 15 countries for the 32nd annual World Film Week(s). The event will run virtually September 17-30, with a special outdoor screening of the documentary Torn at Lithia Park on September 18.

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New York Film Festival Announces Currents Lineup. Opens with ‘The Tsugua Diaries’

The Tsugua Diaries by Maureen Fazendeiro and Miguel Gomes

The Currents section for the 59th New York Film Festival includes 15 features and 36 short films, representing 27 countries. The Opening Night selection is Maureen Fazendeiro and Miguel Gomes’s (Arabian Nights, NYFF53) The Tsugua Diaries, a beguiling pandemic-era tale about three housemates in lockdown—one of several films in the section responding to the current health crisis through varying lenses; others include Shengze Zhu’s A River Runs, Turns, Erases, Replaces, a meditation on urban spaces before and after the COVID outbreak, and Denis Côté’s Social Hygiene, an absurdist comedy in which characters exchange barbs from a humorous distance.

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Toronto International Film Festival unveils Industry Selects, In Conversation With…, Special Events and Platform Prize Jury

Kristen Stewart as Princess Diana in Pablo Larraín’s Spencer

Toronto International Film Festival rounds out the 2021 lineup with the In Conversation With… series, Special Events. TIFF Industry Selects, and also announced is TIFF’s 2021 Platform Prize Jury

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The French Dispatch and The Power of the Dog to Compete for Audience Award at San Sebastian Festival

The French Dispatch directed by Wes Anderson

Two new films – Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch and Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog will compete for the City of Donostia / San Sebastian Audience Award in the Perlak section at San Sebastian Festival’s 69th edition.

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Marion Cotillard to Receive a Donostia Award at San Sebastian Festival

Marion Cotillard

French actress Marion Cotillard will receive a Donostia Award at San Sebastian Festival’s 69th edition. She will collect the honorary award on Friday, September 17, during the Festival opening ceremony.

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Taliban Hostage Drama AND TOMORROW WE WILL BE DEAD Opens Zurich Film Festival

Sven Schelker and Morgane Ferru (front) in Michael Steiner’s And Tomorrow We Will Be Dead © Buena Vista International

The world premiere of Michael Steiner’s hostage drama And Tomorrow We Will Be Dead (Und morgen seid ihr tot) about two Swiss Taliban hostages opens the 17th Zurich Film Festival on September 23, 2021.

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Calgary International Film Festival 2021 Announces Generation Next and Youth By Youth Films

SpaceBoy directed by Olivier Pairoux

Calgary International Film Festival 2021 announced the Generation Next and Youth By Youth films chosen by 9 local high school students. Featuring a diverse range of genres and stories from around the world, these six films reflect the state of indie cinema as curated through a youth perspective. For audiences of all ages, these films will screen as part of the festival, from September 23 to October 3, 2021.

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